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Andre Adolphe Charles KOELLA / KELLA [1885-1946]

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Submitted by Admin on Fri, 2013-04-05 16:57
Names
Given: 
Andre Adolphe Charles
Family: 
Koella / Kella
Sex: 
Male
Status: 
Deceased
Birth
Date: 
c.1885-01-01 (Month, Day are approximate)
Birthplace (country): 
Switzerland
Death
Date: 
1946-01-14
Tags: 
WW2: Interned at Stanley Camp
Connections: 
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Submitted by annpake on Wed, 2021-09-08 20:43.

Victoria Australia Index of Naturalisations 17 October 1912

Andre Adolphe Charles Koella  age 27   Native place Switzerland

Australia Register of Seamen

Andre Adolphe Charles Koella born 1 July 1885 Switzerland

Marriage

Andre A C Koella married Ethel R Frost in Manly New South Wales Australia in 1913

He appears in Australian Electoral Register 1914 at  8 Dixon Street Prahran Gardens, Balaclava, Victoria occupation master mariner. Ethel Recarder(sic) Koella is listed at the same address.

World War II Seamens Roll of Honour

Andre Adolphe Charles Koella age 65 born  1885 died 14 January 1946 in the UK

Commonwealth War Graves Records

Andrew Charles Kella (sic) Merchant Navy, Master of S.S.Tinley (Hong Kong) died 14 January 1946 age 60 . Son of Charles and Sophie Koella and husband of Ethel Kella of Randwick Sydney

UK British Army and Navy Records

A C Kella  Captain in Merchant Navy died 14 January 1946 at the Royal Naval Hospital Sydney Australia . Cause of death pulmonary tuberculosis

Obvious discrepancies in records relating to the same person. Beside the name Kella in the CWGC records is a large red circular mark possibly indicating an error. His CWGC  headstone  in  Sydney War Cemetery gives his wife's name as Edith Ricarda Kella and birth date 1886